Wandering Narrows
A far-northern channel whose seasonal shore makes borders impossible to draw honestly.
The narrows lie beyond Lake Aranea near the northern limit of settled observation. Ice shelves move the usable passage each season, leaving boundary stones alternately inland and underwater. Umarwald's surveyors mark safe routes in removable poles rather than carving permanent claims.
During the Northern Survey, Vessa Rusk found a warm seep beneath a boundary marker and sealed the sample in a common kitchen jar. It stayed warm through an entire winter. The jar is now in Garnetrun, where its maker's mark is being compared with objects recovered from the oldest buried chambers.
Surveyors replaced fixed border claims with seasonal navigation markers.
A western coastal reach whose shifting weed banks make reliable charts short-lived.
A sheltered western passage where nursery boats and grain barges exchange cargo.
The southeastern shipping threshold on which small Qirarden can confront larger fleets.
A sheltered recess beneath the southern farm country, used by smugglers and rescue crews alike.
The broad western sea whose mild currents support the forests that finance borrowed summer.